Tag: writing

  • Writing For Your Life

    Writing For Your Life

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    I’m taking a break from checking student essays (and other personal and professional activities, including [but not limited to] – washing the dishes from yesterday’s dinner, formatting response sheets, and preparing for student presentations and workshops tomorrow) because I was really bothered by a tweet that came across my timeline earlier today. And no, it’s…

  • Teaser Sequence

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    Good lord, the semester is over and I don’t have to teach mid-year classes. (Gambatte, teachers teaching during the mid-year!) So I have a bunch of things I want to write about, in no particular order: – Getting married (to the best person, no less!) – Attending Jamilton and being fully immersed in fandom –…

  • December Doldrums and Delights

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    The thing about December is that it decided to arrive at the tail end of an already terrible year. 2016 has decided to beat us up in terms of brutality (physically and psychically) on top of the everyday violence we already experience as human beings trying to live on this rapidly deteriorating planet. It probably…

  • NaNoWriMo 2016?

    NaNoWriMo 2016?

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    So the last time I tried doing NaNoWriMo was in 2011, where I literally tapped out after 2K words. But here’s the thing: I literally need to finish my Kabanata novel by the first of December, because I received a creative work grant from the university that allowed me to teach fewer classes this semester.…

  • Hey It’s Halloween!

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    I’m not a very big fan of scary stories and horror films. I’m not the type of person who enjoys thrill-seeking adventures (see: my acrophobia), and while stories are still slightly better than films – especially slasher films, or horror films that concentrate on gore – it’s still a genre that I’m probably never going to enjoy as…

  • Instructions on How to Launch a Book

    Instructions on How to Launch a Book

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    Write the actual book This is very important. You will have nothing to launch if you did not write anything in the first place. To my past self’s surprise, I never really imagined writing a collection of short fiction; my writing trajectory in college was poetry, and so I wrote fiction as finger exercises, a way to…

  • Of Busy Bears and School Talks

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    So it’s been a crazy week, and there’s just been so many things going on that it’s hard to get my head straight. But one of the nice things about having a busy week is that you get to meet a lot of people and catch up with others. Bears in Binondo One of the…

  • Appearances: Aug-Sept 2016

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    You can find me doing a few things in the next few months: St. Paul Pasig HUMSS Talk I’ll be speaking with the Grades 11 and 12 students at St. Paul’s College, Pasig, as part of the “Home Grown Stories from Home Town Glories” series for HUMSS students. Initially set for August 10, 2016, but…

  • Writes and wrongs

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    I’ve always been wary of being called a writer. When I was in high school, my English teacher told me that calling one’s self a writer was the height of conceit, that one was mayabang if one called themselves a writer. Someone else had to call you a writer. Else, you can just describe your activity…